Paul Costelloe appears to be like to equestrian world in London Vogue Week present

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Reuters

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February 23, 2025

Irish designer Paul Costelloe drew inspiration from the equestrian world for his newest assortment at London Vogue Week on Friday, exhibiting jodhpur-shaped culottes, tweeds and prints that includes present jumpers.

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Costelloe’s autumn-winter 2025 line included dressage-like fitted jackets and structured skirts and shorts, generally paired with caps and lengthy boots. Fashions additionally wore female coats and voluminous attire.

“The theme is … showing my vintage, dating back to when I launched a collection called ‘Dressage’, so it’s quite equestrian,” Costelloe, 79, advised Reuters. “It’s got lovely tweeds … but we’ve made it a little more raunchy maybe.”

Costelloe selected autumnal hues for his color palette – brown, amber and pink – in addition to cream and black. His outfits bore examine in addition to floral patterns.

Turkish designer Bora Aksu mentioned his newest assortment was impressed by Austrian-Hungarian Empress Elisabeth. Fashions wore structured coats and jackets with delicate, embroidered chiffon and lace attire.

The gathering, primarily in white, cream, pink, purple and blue, additionally featured lengthy tiered skirts, blouses with bows and layered frocks. Some fashions wore veils over their faces and lengthy gloves.

“She was one of those characters that I was drawn to because she was, I think, so misunderstood,” Aksu mentioned. “People could only see her as…(Empress Elisabeth) but … she was into poetry, she was into writing. She was doing beautiful drawings.”

Operating February 20-24, London is the second leg of the autumn-winter 2025 catwalk calendar, which started in New York and can go to Milan and Paris.

On the programme are rising designers in addition to extra established manufacturers together with Burberry, Erdem and Roksanda. London is thought for its style colleges and for nurturing expertise that has gone on to work at a number of the world’s greatest luxurious labels.

In a bid to offer industrial assist for designers, there might be a style week pop-up store on Regent Road in central London.”It is a particularly challenging time at the moment, in the UK … because we are still focusing really on sort of overcoming the trade barriers of being out of the EU,” Caroline Rush, outgoing CEO of the British Vogue Council, advised Reuters.

“The shop is really an opportunity to showcase the brilliant designers that we have,” she mentioned.